Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — A Converted Colonel. [ARTICLE]

A Converted Colonel.

A West Virginian, noted as being dreadful slew pay, was in the city recently looking for an office, and he called on Commissioner Miller to see about it. A day or two after the Congressman from his district also went to see the Commissioner. •‘So Colonel Blank was here the other day?” he said, inquiringly. “Yes,” replied Mr. Miller, “he called to pay his respects.” “No?” said the Congressman, in surprise. “Yes, he did." “Came up and paid his respects, did he?” “Certainly,” replied Mr. M., himself surprised at the Congressman. “Didn’t say anything to you about waiting till the first of the month, or calling around next week, or sending a boy to his office for a check, or anything like that?” “.Not a word ” “Well, by thunder, the Colonel must have got religion.” Washington Critic. A resident of Minnesota, who has seen several severejiornadoes, says that their most peculiar feature is the singular sucking-ifiovement. Buildings are sucked up into the clouds entire, and come down soon in fragments.